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Meaning of gubbish | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Anything worthless or incomprehensible; junk.

uncountable

Examples

“But by the time the novel is over we are left with the perception that the autistic boy is living in a kind of precog vision of a future decaying into “gubbish,” into a dead simulacrum from which all animating spirit has been leached ( a key Dickian concept ), as real or more so in some sense than the consensus reality of the other characters.”
“All that kipple, gubbish, garble and abomination which Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon, Jr., showed for what it is when she appeared, smiling a little uncertainly, from her postbox in McLean, Virginia.”
“It rained gubbish, now; all was gubbish, wherever he looked.”
“How'd you get your information, the stuff on the index cards? Which, anyway, is probably all gubbish.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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